Senior Engineering Manager — Aerospace & Defense

Karman Space and Defense; Mukilteo (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health Savings Account (HSA) with公司

Job summary

Karman Space and Defense in Mukilteo, WA, seeks an experienced engineering leader to oversee a functional engineering group, consolidating labor demand and managing daily resource allocation across programs.

You will partner with technical experts to deliver standards, training, and staff development, while guiding career progression and ensuring scalable, staffed work packages for multiple concurrent programs.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering from an accredited program.
• 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, with at least 2 years in aerospace.
• Proven ability to plan resources, schedule, and manage technical staff.
• Ability to translate ambiguous engineering requests into scoped, staffable work packages.
• Strong collaboration with technical experts across programs.

Responsibilities

• Consolidates labor-demand signals across programs into a unified view of committed, requested, and open needs.
• Coordinates daily allocation of functional engineering resources to balance workload and support individual career growth.
• Manages traffic control for resource requests by sequencing needs, staging work, and flagging conflicts early.
• Tracks allocation and effort against work orders to identify and address over- or under-utilization.
• Oversees logistics for standards dissemination and training, including scheduling, completion tracking, and maintaining training pipelines.
• Partners with technical experts to ensure engineering standards and training content are built, maintained, and delivered effectively.
• Maintains qualification ladders and monitors progression toward independent qualification for new hires and transfers.
• Helps programs break down engineering tasks into clearly scoped, staffable work packages with realistic schedule and effort expectations.
• Identifies required skill sets for tasking and routes ambiguous or contested technical requests to the appropriate expert.
• Leads people-management activities including goal-setting, performance reviews, coaching, career pathing, and administrative duties such as timekeeping, approvals, onboarding, and HR coordination.

Skills

Resource planning

Scheduling

Staff development

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Job description

Karman Space and Defense in Mukilteo, WA, seeks an experienced engineering leader to oversee a functional engineering group, consolidating labor demand and managing daily resource allocation across programs.

You will partner with technical experts to deliver standards, training, and staff development, while guiding career progression and ensuring scalable, staffed work packages for multiple concurrent programs.